Friday, October 13, 2006

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Dictionary Day - October 16

Celebrate Noah Webster’s birthday ! What is the proper way to celebrate Dictionary Day? Some ideascourtesy of randomspeak.blogspot: roaming around aimlessly with little party hats and noisemakers to be blown at the first sign of a misspelling, improperuse of a contraction, or other grammatical error.! Also generously provides ahandy list favorite words for you to sprinkle liberally throughout your conversations today, see: randomspeak.For the very odd & weird word of the day:urbandictionaryFor Strange and Unusual Dictionaries:blueray

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth ofa language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, isa most useful work.Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary